Here are our top young-adult-ish books of 2018! For the list of books we’re reading on the pod in 2019, click here! Just an FYI, the links listed are Amazon affiliate links, so if you click them and then buy something, we make money. Thanks for your support of our podcast! <3

Julia Honorable Mention
Queen of Blood/Reluctant Queen by Sarah Beth Durst

Taylor Honorable Mention
The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

Julia #3
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Taylor #3
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

Julia #2
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray  

Taylor #2
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Julia #1
The Hunger by Alma Katsu

Taylor #1
Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Spoilers alert! (duh)

Taylor and Julia discuss Stephanie Perkins’s AMAZING series (Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, Isla and the Happily Ever After). She deserves so much better than this podcast. Taylor and Julia love these books, but for some reason all they do is bash them for an hour.

Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Julia and Taylor discuss the favorite books they read in 2017. Stephanie Perkins (Anna and the French Kiss), Jon Krakauer (Missoula), Margaret Atwood (Handmaid’s Tale), Nicola Yoon (The Sun Is Also a Star), and more!

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Books

Runner up Julia – Missoula: rape and the justice system in a college town, Jon Krakauer

Runner up Taylor – Stephanie Perkins series (Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, and Isla and the Happily Ever After)

3 Julia – Stranger in the Woods,  Michael Finkel

3 Taylor – The Sun is Also a Star, Nicola Yoon

2 Julia – Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

2 Taylor – Mom & Me & Mom, Maya Angelou (from Julia—heart heart heart heart)

1 Julia – IT, Stephen King

1 Taylor – The Color of Water, James McBride

Taylor and Julia get deep (ha) into friendship: ones on the internet and in real life. Get the uncomfortable story of one of their worst friend breakups (not with each other, don’t worry).

Taylor and Julia ramble for a while. Julia tells tales of her falling-apart car, and the two share the woes of moving house. The two friends discuss what they’re loving to read and watch right now.

The first episode of Wine and Sentences is one that is better to skip…or you can listen along as Taylor and Julia sort out awkwardness and audio issues and introduce themselves.